Sorry ladies, I’ve found it hard to find at least 10 items this week. Mind you, there was plenty of fan fiction out there. I haven’t linked any because I have kind of lost touch. But if you search for Thorin or Richard Armitage, you will find plenty.

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143 thoughts on “2018 Armitage Weekly Round-up #30”

Morning!!
Bwahaha on the ugly sweater LEGO post. Hilarious.
Yes, fans are breaching all kinds of genre and medium barriers for that man. The power is real.
The BAFTA look is yummy, I agree. I’m #TeamCasual as well, but if I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times—it’s nigh on impossible to ugly that man up.
Well, I’ll keep this short. Due to an unforeseen disturbance in my sleep schedule (down too late, up way too early) my synapses are not firing on all cylinders today. 🤯

Mahlzeit 🙂
The lego post really made me laugh, too.
Hear hear on the impossibility of making the man look ugly. I mean, even as Francis Dolarhyde he had a strange appeal.
Hope the synapses have recovered in the meantime…

They’re pretty slow. I would’ve needed to sleep in past 7 this morning to make up for the loss of sleep, but circumstances prevented me. Well. I’ll live. Dolarhyde is definitely strange. I grappling with the appeal if you know what I mean.

Ha, I know exactly what you mean. I never read any Dolly fan fiction, but boy, I was weirdly attracted to him, too. I blame the chap who played him. What’s his name again? Robert Hermitage or something like that? 😁

After the intensity of our pout session over his Hannibal appeaRAnce in Feb (are you going by the way) #8 is exactly what I needed this morning!
I love the Smaug Bilbo exchange f**klord is brilliant!! I hope you enjoyed your Baileys last night. Have a relaxing weekend and stay out of trouble! 😉😘

I wonder whether the ersatz Bailey’s is responsible for that latent headache I have today… But the weekend has been great so far, with a lovely catch-up with one of my favourite RL friends, then lunch with my lovely son (gee, not sure whether mothers are allowed to say that), and now a little internet time.
Hope yours is nice, too.

Ersatz 🤣🤣I love your vocabulary words. I’m gonna get a facial done in a little while and then Happy Hour a friend tonight and dinner. I told her I need to vent about Mr A and she will vent about her soon to be ex husband. I’m bringing the RAPS with me 😘😘
So sweet your lunch w your son. I guess non reply means you are NOT attending the Horrible er Hannibal convoluted thingy?

I haven’t been all that active anyway with original posts, but when I put the effort in I’d like to actually see them in the tag lol. No rhyme or reason to what appears, my latest post has appeared in the tag after a couple or so that didn’t. Having to manually access would be more time consuming, you should be able to rely on the RA tag. 😕

So who has tickets to the Starfury Convention? Are you Brits snagging tickets pronto, and do you have us worldwide fans covered? Will there be pictures and live tweets? Videos, too, please. Please use the Popcorn Taxi event in Australia as your model. The Aussies who attended “brought us all along” on their adventures brilliantly.

O, I’ve absolutely no problem with the tweet as such. I just wish he made sure that everything’s as he wants it and then tweeted. Look, if I tweet and then delete ten minutes later, it’s no biggie. Chances are nobody will have even *seen* my tweet in that time. His tweet, however, will have accumulated fifty likes and numerous comments in that span of time, all of which he deleted together with his tweet. That must be frustrating for those who commented/liked.

I wouldn’t have even known that he deleted and then tweeted again. The only time I ever witnessed that was the Sarah Paulson Prada Vegas mini movie thing which I thought was sweet that he tweeted it and then it was gone. I had taken Nyquil and thought I was having a delusion or trippy ride…

Oh that reminded me of the Spooks S7Ep1 when he waltzes on the screen with the ratty looks like my Labradoodle mauled sweatshirt on… He certainly cleaned up well as Lucas!!! That was the Remembrance Day episode right? He still hasn’t RT it today…

The beauty of the Popcorn Taxi event was that it was just Richard and the interviewer on the stage. He didn’t have to compete with any other guests for talk time! It still stuns me how incredibly lucky we were to have seen him under those circumstances, there has been nothing else like it before or since. It felt intimate (cinema venue) and he was obviously relaxed and happy to just “chat.”
Besotted, I’m so glad that we Aussies managed to successfully “bring you along” on that wonderful experience! 😁

That’s a very good point, Mezz. And afaik the con set-up will be different, with combinations of two actors each on stage for the Q&A sessions. The advantage of the con, however, is, that it is fan-driven, so there will probably be a lot of questions.
However, Popcorn Taxi was great because the whole atmosphere was so relaxed – which also made RA appear relaxed. And the moderator was great, too. He was casual and funny, and that really set the tone.

I’ve been having Home Thoughts from Abroad ever since I saw that February announcement. It’s a do-able venue for anyone thinking of going – minutes from Heathrow and they have a shuttle bus service from the terminals.

Thanks for the roundup, Guylty. I didn’t think you’d have time to do one after all the goodies earlier on. I lol’d at the ugly sweater Lego version but oh my eyes, that snowman’s nose.

Moving swiftly on, the BAFTA look gets the thumbs up from me and so do foxy Robin and Wolfie Guy. Cute as buttons, the pair of them!

And finally, many congraulations on your bloggiversary. You’ve kept us happy and entertained from day one and you have the bestest commentors too. In short —

🎼 You are the blogging queen,
Superstar on the Armi-scene,
Blogging queen,
The best fun that there’s ever been.
We can pant
We can sigh
Having the time of our lives
Read that blog, watch those scenes
Thanks to our blogging queen.🎼

LOL – oh, I love that little ditty you included. I should record that and drive my readers mad by having it automatically play everytime they accessed my blog 😉
As for your home thoughts – do it! Great reason to come home. And a good time of year in the sense that it’s off-season and therefore cheaper to travel.

I’m just gonna quit while I ahead on German right now. Here I’m thinking you all are commenting on the horror genre and I’m agreeing it’s a mistake
Hahaha I’m happy you’re bouncing back and forth though! I got the ugly Cmas sweater reference too?!😉🤣

Congratulations on the blogoversary! Your blog is definitely an essential ingredient to the discerning RA fan’s week!
It would be fun to go to the February con, but it’s just not in the cards for me. Hopefully we’ll get lots of reports and pictures from those who can attend.

Sue yeah I was wondering how he’s gonna look I love the Proctor look with hunky shoulders, hunky chest hair and bearditage! I’m happy w any of this group who goes and meets him or selfies with him. I just pray that he is gearing up for a play this summer in London so we all can go!!

Sue, yeah I’m not into the lean look on a guy. Not rub a tub tub either but hunky chunky where he’s bulky and chest hairy and bearditage like Proctor even Trevor in BS2 looked good with his hair, beard and a little more bulk…

Sue, oh he’s soo good in that role. I like the love story aspect of the role but it’s not like you see him doing bad bad stuff. It’s dark but he’s in various stages of undress too and talk about the lean look!! Definitely view it!!

Yeah I get it but he humanizes Francis w Reba and makes him not charming but sweet to her esp when he’s courting her. I found viewing his episodes thru a romantic perspective made it easier for me to get thrubtgem although I would see his episodes again

Aw, thank you, Sue. The blog has recently been given a big boost – partly because I have got more time for it due to less work, and partly because new and very active readers are pushing the conversation. With all of that, it is thriving at the mo.
Yep, hoping for plenty of reports, too.

Hehe, you have put your finger onto it. I enjoy having more free time (you should see my house – the number of floral arrangements has direct-proportionally grown with the added free time 😂) but that is balanced out by the money worry.

Crikey, I’m so far behind on your blogs, G! Just a quick hello to get in on the chat…I think the ugly sweater LEGO has finally convinced me to join Tumblr. I laughed so loudly that I woke up the old lady cats!

Maybe he doesn’t *read* the comments, but his little analytics tool must tell him the number of likes/comments on his tweets and to assume that they are all unilaterally directed @ him saying “Oh Richie, you’re so dreamy” is hubris. And even if, he’s still deleting a bunch of people’s comments. Sorry, I may be grumpy today, but I’m not inclined to cut him a lot of slack on this.

I’m totally giving him all my understanding for deleting the tweets about his mom. That was an extreme situation and he regretted putting that out there. I get that. The rest is just strange and/or careless.

Kate, I love your “Oh Richie, you’re so dreamy” (he is though esp bearditage) I don’t like him on SM period unless he’s political (ie Brexit) OR social (homelessness, environment, pancreatic cancer) by the way his little SSSSLLLLOOOOOWWWW tweet he likes it like that right? I think I missed the boat on his little snarkyiness there no?

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